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An Alabama teacher who allegedly preyed on female students was also a convicted felon who took a leave of absence from the school to serve his prison sentence.
An Alabama history teacher who allegedly offered A's in exchange for sex also moonlighted as a black-market gun dealer, records show.
Phillip Smith III, of
Birmingham, was indicted on federal gun charges while teaching social studies in 2004.
Yet the school district never knew, even as the high school instructor took a seven-month leave to serve his prison sentence.Now the 43-year-old is facing a lawsuit from the family of a female student, who claims Smith cornered her in class and solicited sex.
The complaint also alleges Smith operated a "sex for grades" scheme that targeted children who struggled in school. Birmingham City Schools and the city's board of education, accused of negligence, are also defendants in the lawsuit.
"He kind of liked to dance around the classroom," the unidentified student told
AL.com, which first revealed the creepy teach's tactics.
"My friends told me to have my boyfriend walk me to his class," the girl added.
Smith allegedly put the moves on the student in December 2013, when he was administering a history exam at Huffman High School.
The convict teacher—
who was also a women's volleyball coach at the school—was later fired and criminally charged as a result of the girl coming forward, her attorney, Julian Hendrix, told The Daily Beast.
While Hendrix's client wasn't sexually assaulted by Smith, authorities allegedly found a 14-year-old girl who was, according to a 2014 AL.com
report.
Comment: Yet another despicable development, and a sign that corporate greed coupled with the malevolence of government "policies" has slowly but heavily turned towards the increasing enslavement of human beings in the "land of the free".